FAITH CAPSULE: Continually ask for the hand of God in the face of a wicked world.

Nehemiah 2

It is the hand of God that matters to ask for in the time of wickedness.
God, who saw the wickedness, does know how to deliver and preserve against wickedness.
Genesis 6:5 records the testimony of God, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
The hand of God is with testimonies as a good hand.
Are you seeking God diligently?
The character of seeking God will call the attention of a good hand of God.
Ezra 8:22 testifies to the good hand of God, stating, “The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.”
Undoubtedly, the good hand of God is for real for one who acknowledges it by seeing in the word of God.
Indeed, seeing in the word of God is to receive what His word says, to become such.
For the expectation of what is in the word of Nehemiah 2:8, such will experience the good hand of God.
Nehemiah 2:8 testifies to the good hand of God upon him, enabling him to gain what he needed, stating, “And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.”
Ask that the GOOD hand of God become your portion continually by settling upon your life, in all your going and in your coming in.
What is it that you do not want that has been following you into the new season you are in?
Believe that the hand of God is not short to deliver you from all you do not want.
In your expectation for going further in a new season,
Pray against every stargnation you know or not, be converted to motion to the glory of God over your life.
Ask against every monitoring of your life for an evil agenda, shall not have a place over your life.
Ask against any force, following you, attempting to reduce you in any area of life, shall come down and not rise again.
God is a good God.
Without a doubt, settle with God.
God is merciful with long-suffering.
God will not look over those who seek Him to gain His divine intervention.
In your new season and ongoing, know to give yourself to God, not to live a life of waste.
God is real, with His hand that is not short, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
Above all, His mighty hand and an outstretched arm are with power to deliver and preserve at His appointed time.
Do not run where you walk, or walk where you run.
God is in control.
Walk with God, before God, to arrive at the divine assignment of God over your life.

Prayer for today: Ask against any force that follows you, attempting to reduce you in any area of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The hand of God shall rest over me.

Ezra 7

To trust in God for His intervention is not enough to gain His blessing.
However, to trust and hope is what it takes to gain the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 confirms, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
In the new season, will you trust and hope in the hand of God to answer for you?
In the hand of God, there is power to answer all challenges.
Why not give regard to the hand of God to engage His hand for deliverance and preservation?
Consider that, entering a new season is to open the mind, asking for the hand of God, which is not short to locate you.
Isaiah 59:1 identifies the hand of God, stating, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.”
The character of His hand that is not short is that God hears the calling for Him.
It is evidence that He is God who waits continually for those who wait on Him.
Isaiah 64:4 records, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”
Imagine God waits to act for those who wait on Him.
One who waits on God will not miss the intervention of the hand of God, on whatever the issue presents.
Know that God hears, ask that the hand of God will bring you out of every area of life that is holding you down, which you know and do not know.
There is deliverance in the hand of God.
If the hand of God can answer for the deliverance of the Israelites after four years, He will not fail to answer those who wait on Him.
Moses reminded the Israelites about the hand of God, stating, “And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm…” (Deuteronomy 5:15)
In challenges that seem to have no end, where are you looking to get deliverance?
If one has yet to look up to God, there is a need to gain an understanding of what it means to look up to God.
One that sets one eye on God and the other eye on the world for the intervention to challenges is bound to lose and not get from God.
It was the mighty and outstretched hand that He brought the children of Israel from the slavery of over four hundred years.
Compare your challenges to the slavery bondage of Israel that came out of bondage. Know that a call on the hand of God for your deliverance will gain the hand of God.

Prayer for today: Ask against any mark attempting to bring you down physically or spiritually.

FAITH CAPSULE: Observe the word of God to fear God.

Ecclesiastes 5

God is great to be feared.
The question is, do you fear God?
To fear God from the heart is distinct from merely saying you fear God.
There is none born with the fear of God.
The word of God is the source of knowledge to fear God. 
Deuteronomy 28:58 informs all that, “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD.”
What is taking you away from living by the word of God to gain the fear of God?
The word of God that you give yourself will make you know the fear of God.
Do you fear God?
To fear God is not a matter of determination, but rather a matter of desire, which is to ask for the fear of God.
The word of God commands all to ask, seek, or knock to get from Him.
Matthew 7:8 encourages, “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
One with a desire to fear God will gain from God.
Jeremiah 32:39 informs, “I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever…”
With desire, seek God to fear God, and let no evil have a place in your way of life.
Let your identity be that of one who fears God. 
Do you fear God, or do you only have a mouthful of the fear of God but not the fear of God in the heart?
Ecclesiastes 12:13 speaks it all, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.”
To fear God will prompt obedience to God.
The fear of the Lord is His treasure. (Isaiah 33:6)
Pray for the desire to fear God.
To fear God is to hate evil by not embracing hatred. 
Proverbs 8:13 states, “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate.” 
How much of His fear do you carry in your life?
The fear of God is the way of life, the identity of the children of God dwelling in the presence of God. “In the fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.” (Proverb 14:26) 
Confidence is the character of those who fear God, who know the refuge of God as their habitation.
One who fears God will trust and have hope in God, and will demonstrate confidence in the face of challenge.
Fear of God is to live life to the glory of God. 
Proverb 14:27 states, “The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.”  
Fear God to live for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask that you live life to fear God in all your ways.

FAITH CAPSULE: The heart is the prime target for the devil to attack.

Luke 22

A heart not kept diligently is like a playground for the devil.
Invariably, faith will fail when the enemy attacks the heart.
The Bible describes the heart: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) 
“This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happens to all. Truly, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.” (Ecclesiastes 9:3)
Judas spent time with Jesus, but his heart is a testimony of one who was a victim of the act of Satan in his life.
The Bible records, “Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.” (Luke 22:3-4) 
Satan went after the vulnerable heart of Judas, and he was able to establish his plan to betray Jesus. 
Invariably, faith will fail when the enemy attacks the heart.
Peter was close to Jesus, but he was not immune to becoming a victim of the devil. 
Once, Jesus said to Peter: Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren. (Luke 22:31-32) 
The heart of a man is always a target for the strike of Satan.
Ananias and Sapphira were not forced to sell what belonged to them, but lied about the proceeds of their sale. 
Acts 5:3 records the response of Peter to Ananias and Saphira, when they lied: Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep part of the price of the land for yourself? (Acts 5:3) 
A heart that is engaged by meditating on the word of God will keep the heart from negotiation with the devil. 
Determination is not enough to keep focus from giving in to Satan.
Why?
It was a determination that failed Peter in his attempt to deny Satan, not to deny Jesus. 
Thank God that Jesus prayed for Peter because He knew that determination is not enough against the devices of Satan. 
In your daily journey, to be diligent in keeping your heart away from devices of Satan, pray as David prayed before God: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10)
In this challenging world of wickedness, what is the state of your heart? 
Prayerfully, meditate on God to be the keeper of your heart diligently, so that you do not become the devices of Satan.
God answers prayer.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you, that you will not become a victim of the devices of Satan.